Jacqui Glencross

One European shag with a metal ring and blue Darvic colour ring and one sitting on a nest.

Our next ECR talk is all about seabird ringing! 🐦 Join us to learn how ringing works, opportunities to get involved, and how ringing data supports key research and conservation.

🗓️: Friday 20th March
⌚: 09:30- 11:00 (GMT)
📍: Online

Signup here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📸: Will Brown

Can African penguins be brought back from the brink? Better designed no-fishing zones could help A new court order seeks to protect African penguins, which are critically endangered.

Studying overlap with fisheries can help highlight important areas for protection 🐧 Check out my little article! After spending so long learning to write for scientific audiences, it was an interesting experience learning how to write for the public but I highly recommend!

Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦

ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...

Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland

Person lying on a forest floor grubbing for Storm petrels. Image: Ingrid Pollet.

2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️

Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)

💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)

Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌

Come and join us for another seabird careers Q&A session!!

As I'm planning next years field season, I wonder if anyone on here would like to run a small island project on Skúvoy with me. I will be catching and samling great skuas, but there will be good opportunities to investigate other aspects of seabird island ecology 🌍🧪 #seabirds

Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?

We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣

🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology

Spatial overlap alone downplays the level of interaction between a central place forager and the local fishery While spatial overlap is commonly used to quantify interactions, it may underestimate the true degree of competition between foraging predators and fishing vessels. Our alternative population-level m...

My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟

Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns

📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

#seabirds #ecotoxicology

@univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

📢 PHD OPPORTUNITY

Drivers of variation in population performance of a migratory bird

Fully funded 3-year studentship with @dannihinchy.bsky.social at Liverpool John Moores University

Deadline: 31 October

Details: tinyurl.com/heay3yd3

#ornithology 🪶

Who are we? ALDER (Advancing LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equality & Representation) is a Network for the LGBTQIA+ ecologist community to interact, share and support each other.

Hi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources

Want more info? Join our newsletter? www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join... @britishecologicalsociety.org

🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below

#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals

We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦

We are recruiting for 5 roles:

Secretary 👩‍🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑‍💻

Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏

⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊

Advertisement for registration of WSC4 being open, picturing a gannet in flight and text details of the conference.

Registration is OPEN for the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4)!

📅 7–11 Sept 2026
📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 💻 Hybrid event

Join the global #seabird community to connect, collaborate & conserve 👉 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...

#WSC4 #seabirds #Hobart2026 #ornithology

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Please share!
We are still looking for more mentors for @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Guillemates!

Are you a mid-career seabirder (or beyond) wanting to help support ECRs and can run 4 sessions throughout the year🐧🐥👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Sign up here: forms.gle/MuQLcdaZHtxU...

Sign up for our next ECR talk where we will be discussing peer review with our panel! Friday 5th September 9.30 am BST!!

The Guillemates is back for another year! Sign up now!

If you've got any questions, message me or send me an email at ecr@seabirdgroup.org.uk

Imposter syndrome? Where to find job opportunities/funding to attend conferences?

Calling all Early Career Seabirders! What are some topics you would like more discussion on/support with? I am trying to compile a list of things that mentors could help ECRs with @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

🪶 Seabird scientists & managers! 🌊
Propose a symposium or workshop for #WSC4:
"Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate."
Submit a 1-page summary by 01 August 2025.

🔗 Details on our website bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#Seabirds #ClimateChange #Ornithology #WSC2025

Deadline for proposing a symposium or workshop for #WSC4 is 1 Aug 2025! #seabirds 📆

🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜

I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!

📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027

🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe

Please share widely!

#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

Trying to keep the gulls away from my @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social #seabirdpride top! Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈🐦

A juvenile kittiwake in the hand, wearing a 3-digit coded yellow colour ring, a red plastic ring and a metal ring.

Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛

(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)

#Seabirds #IrishSea

Gannet pride by Maggie Watson, Seabird Pride 2025 Edition - Unisex We are proud to present the winning design from our 'design a tshirt competition' for Seabird Pride 2025, made by Maggie Watson. Profits made from all...

Our Seabird Pride 2025 T-Shirt is now live! 🌟

Seabird pride will take place on the 21st of June so follow the link below to grab one! 🏳️‍🌈🐧

seabirdgroup.teemill.com/product/gann...

Thank you to everyone who came along to our @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social ECR talk this morning! And thank you to our wonderful panel! 🐦🐧🦆

Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists

Great news for the Critically Endangered African Penguin! 🐧

South Africa has agreed to establish no-fishing zones around six major breeding colonies, a huge victory thanks to the relentless efforts of our National Partner @birdlifesa.bsky.social 🌍💙

Read more: www.theguardian.com/environment/...